CEB Press v4 Flash Mob and Production Director
CEB Press v4 – Flash Mob – Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) We are organizing a Flash Mob of contributors familiar with machine design and/or access to CAE/Finite Element Analysis technology. The Flash Mob will be on Friday August 3, at 3:00...
Factor e Farm Update: June to July
Hello everyone, sorry for the delay between blog posts lately. I’m Parker Bonnell, one of OSE’s newer staff members, working primarily with Marcin and Aaron on organizational development. The last month has been a busy one at the Factor E Farm. Our...
TED Global: Radical Openness
I just got back from TED Global. This was the best of the 3 TED conference that I attended so far – 2 of them at Long Beach. I have a chance to attend 2 more TED Conferences next year as the privilege of being a 2012 TED Senior Fellow. I like TED Global...
Call Out for Inverter Project
Hey all, Vann here. If you have a background in Power Electronics, and are interested in acting as a consultant, mentor, or remote developer of our Power Inverter project, please contact me at vann.miller@gmail.com. We’re just starting and thus...
Recruiting Documentation Team
We are recruiting 6 documenters: Videographer, Communications Director, Documentation Director, CAD Director, Documentation Community Manager, and Director of Learning. See the Role Descriptions, and pass this announcement on through your networks. This...
Thiel Fellow
Yoonseo Kang, one of our core crew of 8 at Factor e Farm – recently received $100k to keep out of school. He won the prestigious Thiel Fellowship. This fellowship is also known as the 20 Under 20 program – which is awarded to superstars under...
Filmmaker Ian Midgley visits Factor E Farm
I recently caught a ride with James Slade from Texas while filming the conclusion to my documentary on Open Source Ecology. We tied the LifeTrac prototype 4 onto a trailer and trucked it from Creation Flame outside Austin, TX straight through the night...
June 14 Update
Here is a quick summary of the state of affairs: This does not include the flurry of recruiting that we are working on – 6 documenters for the second half of 2012, as introduced in the last post. We also just shipped the tractor – brick press...
Shuttleworth Foundation Fellows Gathering Report
I don’t think many people have heard of the Shuttleworth Foundation. Yet the Shuttleworth Foundation Fellowship is perhhaps the most prestigious social enterprise fellowship in the world, if the metric of evaluation is the funding provided. Is...
May 28 Update
We are in growing pains indeed. We have now recruited a Farm Manager, Production Director, Executive Assistant, such that our population at Factor e Farm will grow to 17 people by July. We are beginning Microtrac Prototype II by Graham and Bulldozer...
